Thanks so much everyone for all your help and advice
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I did have a hormone test done which was normal but that was a couple of years ago now. I am hoping that when I eventually get to the meno doctor that she might do another one to see if I am perimeno, but I've heard that it is unreliable.
I have been having really rough nights and now barely have enough energy to get through the day! Sleep is supposed to be restorative but my sleep is so bad that it just makes me feel ill and I feel exhausted from waking up with a raised heart beat and the anxiety that goes with it, not to mention the horrible dreams! The worst thing is that it doesn't happen just once a night, I wake up with palps and bad dreams or feeling hot a few times a night. I don't think I've slept through the night for 3 years now!
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I once mentioned the possibility of my having a sleep test when I went to the doctors but she didn't say anything about it and said that it can't be sleep apnoea because I'm not overweight, but I've read that you can have it if you are of a normal weight and it can be caused by other things such as enlarged tonsils which I have got after some bad bouts of tonsillitis when I was younger. Something is seriously disturbing my sleep and I just want to find out what it is because I'm terrified that I'm wrecking my heart with all the palpitations that happen at night, there must be something going on I've never had problems with my sleep before.
I've got a major anxiety about my heart still because of the palps, and I'm absolutely sick of waking up with my heart going weird. It doesn't even help that I've had a 24hr ECG because although I had a few heart poundings when the monitor was on I didn't get any of the horrendous irregular heart beat episodes or the scary heart racing really fast episode so I don't feel completely reassured.
I am very interested to read how many of you have relief from your palps by taking HRT, it gives me hope that I could get rid of mine too if I am in perimeno and that is what is causing them. I really need to sort this out because it is ruining my life and I absolutely dread going to bed, so much so that I have sometimes contemplated not going to bed at all!
Thanks so much again everyone and I will endeavour to get down to the doctors and get myself sorted out, I just don't want them to think I'm a hypochondriac, I've been backwards and forwards to the docs about this problem for 3 years now! The fact that it is not improving makes me think that I might well be in perimeno.
tired lady xx